Articles published in 2009

Requirement analysis and Design flow in Scrum
By: Yi Lv CSM, CSP, CST
When do requirement analysis and design activities happen in the Scrum framework? How is our understanding of requirement and design analysis valuable in the Scrum framework? ...

Beware of the Evil “85% Done”
By: Marko Majkic, CSM, CSP
Years ago, in the dawn of my Scrum voyage, I was asked by my colleague from the sales department to estimate a project. The situation was kind of complicated; I would say kind ...

Scrum is about Teams producing Results in an agile way. Scrum Teams achieve results anyway they can by using a simple set of rules to guide effort. We will describe Scrum as a simple applied model so that a central understanding of Scrum can be built. Other complexities of applied Scrum such as scaling, distribution, etc. will be explored elsewhere.

When an organization starts to explore Scrum, there’s often an uncomfortable moment early on when someone points out that the role of "manager" seems to be missing entirely. "Well I guess we’ll have to just get rid of ‘em all!" wisecracks one of the developers, and all the managers in the room shift uncomfortably in their seats.

Fun Driven Development
Building Momentum for Agile Through GamesBy Don McGreal, CSM, CSP Michael McCullough
Games, like the ones described on TastyCupcakes.com, provide the opportunity for agile teams to quickly build on a shared experience, rea...

Cargo Cult Agile
By: Manoj Vadakkan, CSM, CSP
We have been saying "there are no silver bullets" over and over again. But do we really believe that? In some ways, it is like the disclaimer we add to the end our e-mails. Nobody reads it, but the l...

Smarter Than the Smartest: The Wisdom of Teams
By: Sanzio Castor, CSM
Despite clichés of modern business theory, teams have a remarkable role in Scrum, not because of their power to define, arrange, distribute and perform the methods of w...

Scrum traps – at least some of them – and what we did to avoid/resolve them
By: Marko Majkic, CSM CSP
When I was first introduced to Scrum, I thought "What an easy and beautiful way to be efficient!" After years of doing Scrum, I fou...

Munich Gathering Recap
Over 275 Scrum enthusiasts gathered in Munich, Germany October 19 through 21 to discuss all things Scrum. It was a great three days of interactive learning with everything from keynotes, clinics, breakout sessions, dialog...

The top six technical practices every Product Owner must know about
By: Mikael Boman, CSM, CSPO, CSP, CST
So, you have made it. You are the Product Owner of the company's flagship product. Now you will spend your days thinking about business val...